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There
are big issues with the Football League’s faulty umbrella website
operation which is used by 86 clubs, including eight in the Barclays
Premier League.

Football League Interactive, which manages and
develops internet and mobile rights for their clients headed by PL teams
Stoke, Wigan, West Bromwich and QPR, launched a new platform in July
with a fresh technical partner SapientNitro, a US digital media company,

But there has been a wholesale backlash from clubs up and down
the country at the poor service, technical problems and the complicated
navigation system of the newly introduced sites that have seven million
users.Problems: QPR's website is one of many using the new platform

Richard
Heaselgrave, chief commercial officer of the Football League, faced
mass complaints about the website difficulties at a meeting with
disgruntled clubs held at Wembley before the England game against
Ukraine two weeks ago.

The Football League had held a tender for
the website partnership at which SapientNitro, who have set up three
templates for clubs to adapt to their individual online requirements,
outbid previous operators Perform.

A Football League spokesman
said: ‘There have been technical issues with other digital projects on
this scale. We are resolving them and the sites are improving. It was a
huge exercise to launch more than 80 websites in a matter of weeks.’Daily Mail

Six Year Flashback: "The Club" (ie Gianni Paladini) Versus The Fan Magazine, AKUTRS

QPR Official Site - Monday, September 25, 2006

Official Site-CLUB STATEMENT

Statement by Gianni Paladini on the recent edition of 'A Kick Up The Rs:'

The publication 'A Kick Up The Rs' has recently published a deeply misleading, inaccurate and scandalous article about myself and Queens Park Rangers FC.

A number of serious allegations have been made in that publication which are not true. The publication failed to contact myself or anyone else at the Club to verify their allegations.

Considering the seriousness of the allegations, I have been reluctantly forced to take legal action. The matter is now in the hands of my solicitors.

I expect a comprehensive retraction and apology from the publication for publishing these falsehoods. If they are not prepared to provide that, the matter will be dealt with by the courts.

I am sorry it must come to this, but in order for me to be able to defend myself from such blatant and hurtful untruths, I have no alternative than to take this action.

I shall make no further comment on this matter until either the apology and retraction has been received or legal proceedings are concluded."

A Month Later...

QPR Official Site - October 26, 2006 - QPR Official Site "An Apology"

The Editor and proprietor of the fanzine 'A Kick Up The R's' today agreed to publish the following retraction and apology to QPR Chairman, Gianni Paladini:

In the September edition of the newsletter 'A Kick Up the R's', we published a series of articles by Cos Atiolis about Mr Paladini, the Chairman of Queen's Park Rangers football club.

In these articles we falsely suggested that Mr Paladini was involved in fraud, corruption, malpractice and dishonesty, and made a number of other serious false, misleading and defamatory statements about him.

We now fully accept that there is no truth whatsoever in these allegations and we are extremely sorry for the distress and embarrassment caused by the articles.

The newsletter containing the articles has been withdrawn from sale and we have offered Mr Paladini a full right of reply to the articles, which will appear in the next edition.

Paladini said: "I am delighted that the fanzine has withdrawn the untrue and unfair allegations it made against me, and that it was possible to resolve this without legal action.

"Although everyone has a right to free speech, and I welcome constructive criticism, I take my professional reputation very seriously and will not stand by whilst I am accused falsely.

"I find these allegations distressing, not just because they damage me, but also because of the distress they cause to my family and to QPR fans.

"I would never want to fall out with any of our fans. The way to move this club forward is to be united.

"Fortunately, AKUTRs has accepted there was no truth to the serious allegations it published and has retracted them. I will be exercising a full right to reply in the December edition, and I hope that is then the end of the matter."

[NOTE: There ended never being a published Paladini response in AKUTRS

The December issue of AKUTRs (#200) was published - without any reply from Paladini.

In a piece/editorial in the latest AKUTRs (AKUTRs #200), entitled "Gianni Paladini v AKUTRs," editor Dave Thomas reports on the process in which the apology/retraction was demanded and discussions/"negotiations" between Thomas and Paladini (and solicitors) was conducted; and the fact that at AKUTRs publication deadline (November 20), no Paladini response was forthcoming - or in fact any response/communication from Paladini and/or solicitor since the end of October of that time]

Five games into the new season and Mark Hughes is yet to get the best from the French striker

QPR
continue to make tentative progress this season but their recent league
outings have highlighted a problem in attack which Mark Hughes appears
no closer to solving.

Hughes has yet to get the best out of
Djibril Cisse this season, and as the Frenchman was restricted to his
fourth successive appearance as a late substitute against Tottenham,
Hughes’s comments on the former Liverpool and Sunderland man were
revealing.

“He started the first two games, then I changed
things around with different formations for different challenges we
faced playing away from home,” said Hughes.

“We know what Djibril
gives us. He is an outstanding finisher and we have to make sure that
we are strong and compact enough, and have the quality about us to
release him at the right times.

“We haven’t had the solidity to do that as yet, but Djib’s a great impact sub to come on.”

Cisse
has become the most high-profile victim of Hughes’s early-season
tinkering, as the manager seeks to find his most effective formation
after a summer of upheaval.

The 31-year-old is an unpredictable
character, capable of moments of brilliance, underlined by his
magnificent run of form last season which provided the bedrock to
Premier League survival.

But it is that unpredictability –
Cisse’s tendency to drift in and out of games – which has made Hughes
reluctant to play him in a 4-4-2 system which at times leaves Rangers
vulnerable on the counter-attack and in need of strikers who are capable
of supporting an under-pressure defence.

In the recent games
against Manchester City and Chelsea, in which Hughes needed to strike
the right balance between attacking potency and defensive resilience, he
opted for Andy Johnson to partner Bobby Zamora, praising Johnson’s
energy as QPR performed credibly in both matches.

Had Johnson
remained fit, it is likely that he and Zamora would have continued that
partnership, particularly at Loftus Road where the need is for Hughes’s
side to find the net with regularity.

However, the season-ending
injury which Johnson suffered against Chelsea leaves only Cisse and
Zamora able to occupy the centre-forward positions. Against Tottenham on
Sunday, Hughes placed his faith in Zamora as the lone striker in a
familiar 4-2-3-1 line-up.

Zamora is ideally suited to such a
role, and he once again underlined his worth to the side with his fourth
goal of the season. He was at the heart of easily the best football QPR
have played under the Welshman’s guidance, scoring clinically in the
first half and giving Spurs’ centre-backs William Gallas and Jan
Vertonghen a torrid opening 45 minutes in the pouring rain.

But
when Hughes took Zamora off in the 72nd minute, bringing on Cisse but
sticking with the same formation, the Frenchman who is yet to score in
the league this season again proved that he is ineffective playing as
the lone striker.

Hughes was keen to abandon last season’s
4-2-3-1 formation for a more offensive 4-4-2, but Johnson was central to
those plans and Hughes appears completely unwilling to let his two
other strikers loose in tandem. The only option would be to stick with
Zamora up front, and continue with Cisse’s new role as an ‘impact sub’.

But
that could yet prove a risky move. Zamora is the only player to score
in the league for Rangers this season – two from open play, and one
penalty rebound. If Hughes is to persevere with 4-2-3-1 QPR’s supporting
midfielders must also start scoring with regularity.

QPR’s next
five league matches see them entertain West Ham, Everton and Reading –
all games from which, if Rangers have serious ambitions this season –
they should target maximum points.

Trips to an impressive West
Bromwich Albion side and, more significantly, Arsenal, are the ideal
occasions on which Zamora can lead the line when QPR’s priority will be
to avoid defeat.

But certainly at home, Hughes needs to find a
way to get the best from Cisse, or QPR’s most dangerous attacking weapon
will be lost amid a series of appearances from the bench.

The
jinxed England midfielder has started just 16 league games in the past
five years, but QPR's sports science department finally have him fit and
firing

Fantastic specimen: Dyer played almost the whole game against

Kieron
Dyer has revealed that Mark Hughes and his Queens Park Rangers backroom
staff have given him a new lease of life - by taking the pee out of
him.

The luckless 33-year-old has made just 16 Premier League starts in FIVE YEARS because of injuries.

But he has credited Hughes and QPR for using a unique approach to highlight potential problems before they occur.

After
a lengthy run-out as sub in Sunday's loss to Tottenham, Dyer said:
“There’s a lot of sports science involved. We take saliva tests, pee
tests, everything, in the morning.

”If my saliva test is a bit
high, they pull me out of training, or modify it. They’re doing
fantastically well for me - and it seems to be working.

”They
take a swab and they can tell if you’re feeling stressed, if your body's
not 100 per cent. That’s the way the game is going.

”It’s all
ifs and buts. We’ll never know what might have happened if I’d had this
treatment before. I’m not looking to the past, I’m looking to the future
because these are very exciting times for QPR.

"I haven’t played regularly for the last four years, so hopefully I’m still classed as a 28-year-old and not a 33-year-old!”

Kieron
Dyer is stretchered off during the Barclays Premier League match
between Queens Park Rangers and Bolton at Loftus Road Trying start: Dyer
goes off after being injured minutes into last seasonGetty

Rangers
have yet to pick up their first Premier League win of the season, and
the side has been completed overhauled since that 5-0 thrashing at home
to Swansea in their opening game of the season.

Dyer revealed he has been boosted massively by Hughes’ insistence that he is part of the new-look Hoops team.

It
is a far cry from last December, when Dyer picked up a knock in his
comeback game from an injury suffered minutes into the first game of the
season - and subsequently lost his squad number.

He added: “Neil
Warnock was the manager at the time and he was devastated for me. He
said to give it a few weeks then we’d sit down and talk about the
future.

"But then there was a change of manager. Mark Hughes
straight away said he wanted to give me another chance. And that’s
what’s happened.

Kieron Dyer of Newcastle is attended to by club
Physio Kenny Wharton What a pain: Dyer gets treatment in 2005-06, when
he played only 13 games for NewcastleGetty

”I played 60 minutes in midweek and another 90 on Sunday, so I’m getting the minutes under my belt.

”I haven’t missed a training session this season and been available for every game, so things are going great for me.

”We just need to start getting a few points on the board and everything will be falling into place.”

Cynics
questioned Hughes' wisdom on Sunday when he sent on Dyer to replace
right-back Jose Bosingwa, who injured a hamstring just a minute into the
Spurs match.

But the former Ipswich, Newcastle and West Ham man lasted the remainder of the game and was praised by Hughes afterwards.

Dyer went on: “I started my career at Ipswich there and made my England debut at right-back.

”I
haven’t played there for a while. I was sitting down there, enjoying a
cup of tea, and the next thing I know I’m getting thrown in at
right-back against Gareth Bale - so that was a good test for my
hamstrings!

"I’m gutted we didn’t get the three points but, from a personal view, it’s going well.

”I feel 100 per cent.

"I
felt I was up and down like a young Kyle Walker, especially in the
first half. The hamstrings held up well, and playing against one of the
best wingers in the world was a good test.”

Kieron Dyer of West Ham is taken off after an injury Not again! Dyer averaged four starts per season for West HamGetty

As
for the doubters, Dyer went on: “I’ve been called a lot worse than
injury-prone, trust me, so I’m very thick skinned when it comes to
criticism. It doesn’t bother me.

”As long as you’ve got the right people around you and supporting you, that’s all that matters.

”I got a lot of messages of support from my fellow pros - ‘Head up, we’re all devastated for you’, that kind of thing.

”But not once did I get down. I just thought, If I get another chance then I’m going to prove everyone wrong.'

”I’m getting some minutes under my belt and if I stay on the pitch then I’m going to prove a few doubters wrong.”